This book provides a comprehensive guide to using ADO.NET, with plenty of practical code examples and extensive technical information. Whether you're developing web applications using ASP.NET, Windows Forms applications, or XML Web Services, this book will show you how to use .NET's data access technology to maximum effect. Along the way, it looks at:

Understanding the architecture of the ADO.NET data providers

Reading and writing data with data readers, data adapters and DataSets

Making development safer with XML Schemas and strongly typed DataSets

Defining constraints on and relationships between your data

Using ADO.NET's built-in support for transactional processing

Optimizing the performance and security of your ADO.NET applications

Developing your own data provider for a custom data source

Synopsis
ADO.NET is Microsoft's data access technology and, as an integral part of the .NET Framework, is far more than simply an upgrade of previous incarnations of ADO. ADO.NET provides an extensive set of .NET classes that facilitate efficient access to data from a large variety of sources, enable sophisticated manipulation and sorting of data, and form an important framework within which to implement inter-application communication and XML Web Services. This title provides a comprehensive guide to using ADO.NET, with plenty of practical code examples, extensive technical information, and a detailed case study. Those developing web applications using ASP.NET, Windows Forms applications, or XML Web Services should find out how to utilize .NET's data access technology to maximum effect. The book covers: ADO.NET and the .NET Framework; using the .NET Data Providers to create connections and execute commands; using the DataSet to manipulate data; ADO.NET and XML; using COM interoperability; and performance and security issues.

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